The Princely House of Gagarin orginates from the founder of Russia,
Rurik,
867. The descendant of Saint
Prince Vladimir, the
Christianizer of Russia, and the son of Grand Duke Vsevolod III Bolchoie
Gnesdo of Wladimir, 1175-1212, Ivan Vsevoloditch, Reigning Prince
of Starodub
(in Russian: Стародубские
князья), the author of the Princely House of Gagarin. The great-great-grandson
of this Prince Ivan, Prince Ivan Fedorovich, called Lapa-Golibesovskoy,
had a son, Prince Mikhail, and Prince Mikhail had three sons: Princes
Vasilii, Ivan, and Youri "Gagara" whose descendants, the
Gagarin
Princes (in Russian:
Князья Гагарины), served
the Russian Throne in many distinguished positions.

The history of the Russian Empire shows that many of the Gagarin Princes,
both in ancient times as well as in more recent times, were granted
feifdoms for their service to the fatherland, and were rewarded with
several Orders
and other tokens of the Monarch's favor. According to many rulings
of the Imperial Senate of Russia, the members of the family were reconfirmed
many times as Russian Princes.